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Have His Carcase choose

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[UK] D.L. Sayers Have his Carcase 322: Jenny Moggeridge’s Baby Charles what was a accident what Mrs Moggeridge was looking after.
at accident, n.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 56: ‘Fair tied to that young woman’s apronstrings,’ he reflected.
at tied to someone’s apron-strings (adj.) under apron-strings, n.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 423: They’ll have been destroyed, as sure as eggs is eggs.
at sure as hogs are made of bacon under sure as..., phr.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 195: ‘Ain’t she the snail’s ankles?’ asked Mr. da Soto, admiringly.
at bee’s knees, n.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 242: Take off that vulgar and idiotic hat and tell me who this low-down, bone-headed, bird-witted, dissipated murderer is.
at bird-witted (adj.) under bird, n.1
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 193: I suppose you believe his Bolshie story.
at bolshie, adj.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 242: Take off that vulgar and idiotic hat and tell me who this low-down, bone-headed, bird-witted, dissipated murderer is.
at boneheaded, adj.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 435: That number-plate was pure bunce for them—they can scarcely have picked or wangled it on purpose.
at bunce, n.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 89: If I shave the beard I come out all over buttons.
at button, n.1
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 325: He’d have plenty of time to [...] buzz along on foot to the rock and commit his murder.
at buzz, v.1
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 127: Lord, Inspector! How you startled me! All right, it’s a fair cop.
at fair cop, n.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 117: You know the sort, all la-di-dah and snake-skin shoes.
at la-di-da(h), adj.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 242: My dear, what’s happened? You’re all of a doodah!
at all of a doodah under doodah, n.1
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 128: Square-crowned bowler, big green gamp.
at gamp, n.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 50: I was thinking about my grub.
at grub, n.2
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 448: If we do prosecute, d’you really think we’ve a hope in Hades?
at not a hope in hell under hell, n.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 267: I’ll begin seriously to weave a hempen neck-tie for him.
at hempen cravat (n.) under hempen, adj.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 385: We tried the mag, and she was working top-hole.
at top-hole, adj.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 154: I like a bit more open air and none of this jazz and dinner-jackets.
at jazz, n.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 128: Three hundred golden sovereigns — that’s what he turned it into. Three hundred round, golden jimmy o’ goblins.
at Jimmy O’Goblin, n.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 152: Makes a chap look a bit of a fool when his mother proposes to give him a twenty-year old lounge lizard for a step-papa.
at lounge lizard (n.) under lounge, n.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 406: At the moment when everything is ready to poop off, the rest of the gang arrive.
at poop off, v.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 257: I’d better pop off home.
at pop off, v.1
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 415: Why don’t you give them to that old woman that’s so struck on you?
at struck on, adj.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 184: He poured himself out a stiff peg.
at peg, n.4
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 117: There’s that Leila Garland—a hard-boiled little piece if ever there was one.
at piece, n.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 152: Thought I’d better push along.
at push along (v.) under push, v.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 415: Anything that’s worth keeping, I’ll keep, but not rubbishing bits of paper.
at rubbish, adj.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 412: ‘When Lord Peter gets these fits of quotation he’s usually on to something.’ ‘Sez you,’ retorted Wimsey.
at says you! (excl.) under say, v.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 435: What more natural than that Weldon, if questioned, should remember a number so screamingly funny as that? Oi, oi, oi! Highly humorous.
at screamingly, adv.
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